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... the true fear of God shall apply himself to them , may think not only to have eternal life , but by the way also to obtain the true knowledge of most things that appertain to this . Seek first the Kingdom of God , and all other things ...
... the true fear of God shall apply himself to them , may think not only to have eternal life , but by the way also to obtain the true knowledge of most things that appertain to this . Seek first the Kingdom of God , and all other things ...
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... the objects ; and ad intra , in respect of the will . The first , are speculative , the last , are prac- tical . The first ( whereby the understanding is converfant about things as they have in their own nature a distinct being ) are ...
... the objects ; and ad intra , in respect of the will . The first , are speculative , the last , are prac- tical . The first ( whereby the understanding is converfant about things as they have in their own nature a distinct being ) are ...
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... the part of the memory ) which the more fuperior facul- ties make ; the memory being most truly that which the philosophers have usually faid of the will , cæca potentia ; keeping those things committed to its charge , with no more know ...
... the part of the memory ) which the more fuperior facul- ties make ; the memory being most truly that which the philosophers have usually faid of the will , cæca potentia ; keeping those things committed to its charge , with no more know ...
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... those things that were fixed in the memory shall fall from thence , and all the powers of the mind shall be broken ; and this is that which to me seems the true meaning of this second verse . And hence we may gather how sad man's ...
... those things that were fixed in the memory shall fall from thence , and all the powers of the mind shall be broken ; and this is that which to me seems the true meaning of this second verse . And hence we may gather how sad man's ...
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... those that look out of the windows be darkened . That by this clear expression the eyes and the infirmities of ... things which are without ; or when he looks thro ' the open cafe- ment , or thro ' some open hole of the win- dow ...
... those that look out of the windows be darkened . That by this clear expression the eyes and the infirmities of ... things which are without ; or when he looks thro ' the open cafe- ment , or thro ' some open hole of the win- dow ...
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Page 13 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 97 - And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Page 1 - Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; while the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain : in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves...
Page 54 - And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me.
Page 229 - My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: for length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: so shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Page 229 - There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days ; for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Page 145 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
Page 201 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 166 - I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and there abide for ever.